User talk:CountessOMar

Kirk o'Field & Carberry Hill
I wonder if you could explain your hashtag numerical references to British Public Record Office papers a bit more, as they do not resemble in any obvious way the published Calendar of State Papers Scotland series?

Generally, some kind of reference is preferred. To do this, you insert the reference to the text consulted between chevron bracketed ref and /ref after the sentence you have derived from a published source. All the best.Unoquha (talk) 20:51, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks for adding references (via British History online), ''CSP. Foreign Elizabeth'', vol.8 (1871), no.1433, would be fine. However, I'm not sure what you have said is quite right. If you look at Fa'side Castle you'll see that Mary left a trunk of clothes there. (Its inventory is transcribed in Warrender Papers, vol.1) As I read it, CSPFE, 8, no.1433 is just Elizabeth's man at Berwick, William Drury, writing that he has heard that Morton recovered another of Mary's boxes from Fa'side Castle, well, very likely. No suggestion it is the 'casket letters,' and may well be the same box as the Warrender Papers one.Unoquha (talk) 22:42, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Another thought, if William Drury's mention of the box recovered from Fawside is thought to be relevant to the casket letters, as being 'of value', other than being some jewels, then he would have to have known that Mary carried around something of political value. So this connection (which may be in your secondary sources) would be an assertion that the casket letters were genuine and also already known to this English official.Unoquha (talk) 08:18, 7 June 2012 (UTC)